Sunday, December 29, 2013

Mighty No. 9's Call Design Finally Decided

To the surprise of no one, design F, by Inti Creates’ Yuuji Natsume, has won the Call vote:

"Call F exits the Battle Colosseum triumphant, as the people cheer her on!!We’d like to say thank you to all the Backers who contributed to making
this second vote a great success!

The battle got heated at times, but
the Mighty Numbers stayed strong and campaigned through numerous threads
to support their favorite Call! We couldn’t have done it without you,
and the goodwill and enthusiasm surrounding this Poll! Thank you, Mighty
Beckers!"

Call H placed 3rd with 15.47% of the vote, while Call E placed 2nd with 41.14%.

I am a bit disappointed. I would have liked it if the votes had swayed to something else that didn't necessarily look like a Roll clone. Yes she is Roll in the sense of her role, but some differences was all I would have asked for. =/

It may have helped if they had actually drawn the other two in the MN9 style. Oh well, suppose I cannot complain too much. Progress is progress.

well ofcourse, we still haven't seen any gameplay or story and characters to speak of. once they show us something, we can see if it's just a mega man clone (saying that out loud made me ask why nobody made a mega man clone) or putting a spin on mega man formula.

Take away 'like Megaman' and you still have a bunch of industry veterans who have a lot of experience with sidescrolling games and are almost certainly going to make something enjoyable - maybe not groundbreaking, but enjoyable - and polish it to a fine sheen.

That is why I put forth twenty bucks. Not as some 'stick it to Capcom' message, but because I'd be all for seeing them do another rock solid platform game, and I think they will do just that, Megaman likeness or no.

I love how people can't be happy that things are progressing and instead whine like little girls about how designs lost. I wanted H, yet I'm happy that F won. Why? Because it's progress and because the majority appreciate that design. I swear... a bunch of babies can't ever be happy. Congrats F and F supporters, I look forward to Call mode and to see how her design fares. I'm a bit sad H lost but, wealth and glory to the winner as the saying goes. I can't wait tell the next subject to vote on, this was intense and fun... minus the cry babies... and generally a fun thing. I'm glad Inafune and the rest of his crew are so interested in fan opinions. It's a step up from Capcom, Sega, and a lesser degree Square Enix. More companies should look to him as an example.

I'm glad E didn't get it, and I'm surprised it did so well: I thought that design was hideous. H on the other hand I loved, it was more unique and simple. A real shame that the obvious Roll knockoff made it through, but that was the more developed design anyway and they'd already been using it as a placeholder, obviously influencing its mindshare.

I’ve been seeing a lot posts that have a lot mixed feelings of Call F. Most of it deals with the fact on how much she looks like Roll. Now, I’m sure people picked her for different reasons, but people in the MN9 kickstarter, destructoid, various megaman websites, and etc. seem to have a huge issue with this. One of the biggest complaints being that “People merely picked her because they want their Megaman game and they’re stupid.” Hey, I liked E and F and I wasn’t a backer. Didn’t affect me……. In fact, I think a lot of the designs for Call would’ve been used better as Support characters, NPCs, or even villains (C and D). If Mighty No. 9 turns out successful, then it would most likely put Capcom in a lot of shame (they’re not only bad game developers, but also bad business people and terrible human beings).

Anyways…. Why are you guys putting the people who voted for F down? I’m not sure if the voting was rigged or not (I’ve heard weird things going on). But 43% is still a huge number. And I would think that those backers played a large role in getting the game where it is today. It is nearly HALF of the backers who voted for F. I don’t think pissing them off would be the best idea. If the development cycle for the game had any issues or controversies, going back on the poll would make things even WORSE.I am willing to bet that a large number of backers were indeed Megaman fans. Sure, nostalgia can be blinding (look at how people praise ****** games like Final Fantasy X), But as I said, they played a role so huge that it shows how much the care about the original creator. Again, I’m not too sure if they all voted for F. But if they did, is that any reason to put them down? To make them feel ashamed that they wanted something close to Megaman? I’m the type of people that would think that it’d be sad to see a person crying, just because they’re being them.

The best solution is to have the best of both worlds. I don’t know if anybody noticed, but there are campaigns to bring back several of the concept designs that would’ve been Call. I can’t make any promises that all of them will be used, but if one of the staff members imply that Call D might play a mysterious role in the game.

I am promoting the idea of using the designs to not only have them in the game, but also to ease disagreements. I myself don’t think the majority of the designs best suit Call (seriously, C looked like something from My Little Pony that gone terribly wrong). But I do think they have the best use as something else.

Remember, every backer was there when the developers needed them. We also need to look out for each other instead of hating each other. We got this far. Why stop over who’s Call?